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Even in enlightened circles, condolences are in order for a couple whose newborn is a girl. Over dinner in the Beijing apartment of a liberal-party cadre, a young guest proudly passes around color photos of her infant son, lying spread-eagled on a blanket, his genitals prominently displayed. Seated beside her, the new mother of a baby girl looks on in wistful silence. She carries no pictures. Jiang Junsheng, a senior engineer in a Beijing auto-parts factory, says he wasn't upset when his only child, a daughter, was born, but "my mother did not like it." That...
...daughter tested positive at birth for the presence of drugs in her urine, health officials in Muskegon County, Mich., took the child into temporary custody. But, to Bremer's astonishment, there was more. The county prosecutor stepped in to charge her with a felony: delivery of drugs to her newborn child. The means of delivery? Her umbilical cord...
...Beaver fathers at the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, in other words, to people just like themselves. Women's issues aren't on the radar screen." In addition, powerful men want to project power. Fighting for the right to take time off to care for a newborn or an aging parent is not the read-my-lips image that wins elections...
...goes, all matter was condensed into a package much smaller than an electron. This package had a nearly-infinite amount of energy--enough to cause the four forces to "melt" into one symmetric force. Measuring, probing and just thinking about the present universe, scientists hope to learn about the newborn universe, and how one force somehow became four in the intervening 15 or 20 billion years...
...needs of working parents -- most recently in June, when President Bush vetoed the family-leave bill on the ground that it was too burdensome for business. The bill would have allowed a worker to take up to 12 weeks a year of unpaid leave to care for a newborn, an adopted child or a sick family member...